SCREW PINE


Meaning of SCREW PINE in English

Function: noun

Date: 1836

: any of a genus ( Pandanus of the family Pandanaceae, the screw-pine family) of tropical monocotyledonous Old World trees or shrubs with slender palmlike stems, often huge prop roots, and terminal crowns of swordlike leaves

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